A Place to Bury Strangers Invade Portland
Like a menacing wave, Brooklyn noisemakers A Place to Bury Strangers washed into Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge Saturday night and won over a small but devoted audience of goths and post-punkers with an impressive combination of mangled, industrial-grade sounds and visually arresting, black-and-white video clips projected against the club’s backdrop.
Taking the stage shortly after 11:00 P.M., lead Stranger Oliver Ackermann offered words of praise for the evening’s opening act, Portland’s own goth-pop outfit the Prids. From there, APTBS finessed their way through a pair of early cuts before finding stride in “To Fix the Gash in Your Head,” an ear-rattling joint culled — as much of the set was — from the group’s 2007 eponymous debut. Successive jams like “Missing You” and “I Know I’ll See You” only raised the show’s sonic intensity to more depraved levels.
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